Interesting gaming article on YAhoo! today...

[Inky]

http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com...iction-/1182040

 

 

 

Of course the ET in the desert myth is there, listed as fact

Edited January 29, 2008 by Inky

[Chickybaby]

LOL! I was just going to post the same thing.

Great minds think alike.

[Zach]

Nice job, Inky. I knew it wouldn't take long for someone to post about this. I read the New Mexico story, and was disappointed by the author's uninformed E.T. bashing.

[candiru]

Heh, just saw this myself and was checking if it had been posted. I was also disappointed in their listing of the title of Final Fantasy as a mystifying title choice.

[theking21083]

One mistake I caught was that he said that back in the 80's Nintendo was working with Sony to make a CD addon for the SNES. How could Nintendo be planning a CD addon for a system that didn't exist at that time?

[8th lutz]

One mistake I caught was that he said that back in the 80's Nintendo was working with Sony to make a CD addon for the SNES. How could Nintendo be planning a CD addon for a system that didn't exist at that time?

 

Yahoo didn't do a mistake. You have to look at what was happening to the Famicom (Aka the NES) in the late 80's in Japan. Nintendo was doing a Cat and mouse game with NEC in the late 80's. Nintendo was reacting to what NEC when the PC-Engine was released. NEC released the PC Engine and the Pc-engine CD in the late 80's.

 

Nintendo waited for releasing the Super Famicom in North America due to how well the NES was Selling. The Nes market was going down in Japan in the late 80's. The Pc-Engine(aka Tg-16) was very popular in Japan in the late 80's and early 90's. The PC-Engine also had an add-on called the Pc-Engine CD released in the same decade.

 

The CD add-on might of been worked at the same SNES was being developed in Japan back in the late 80's.

 

It wouldn't be big shock the CD-Add was being worked at the same time as the main system is being worked on. The Atari 7800 had a Keyboard Add-on being worked on before Jack Tramiel took over Atari. The keyboard was being worked on at the same the 7800 was being designed.

 

Nintendo and Sony might have did something similar.

 

Nintendo working on the Super Famicom (aka SNES for North America gamers) in 1988 or early 1989. I am saying that because the Super Famicom was released in November of 1990 in Japan. Nintendo's market share was declining in Japan after the PC-Engine was released in 1987. Nintendo reacted to what happening in Japan with their Market share going down.

 

I remember reading about Sony and Nintendo being in talks about the cd add-on in the late 80's and early 90's. Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation

 

They did the reference from game over author David Scheff.

Edited January 29, 2008 by 8th lutz

[Zach]

If anyone missed the article's front page appearance...

[Inky]

I was amazed as well that it was up on the front page as well